Jono

@jonocarpenter.bsky.social

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Archaeology, banjos, Taitokerau, toddlers and teens, lack of executive function, second chances, mental exhaustion, well-toasted bread, banjos

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This is great. I am waiting to pass on all of my copies to my eldest but I don't think he's quite there yet. Definitely The Bridge for Iain Banks Look to Windward for Iain M.

‘An explosion of talent’: Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory at 40www.theguardian.com As a new anniversary edition of the late author’s landmark debut is published, high profile fans reflect on an extraordinary career

Love that the tradies in Tradies drive a Mahindra #Bluey

I am from Aotearoa-New Zealand, close are what I put on every morning when I get out of bed

If I write the word “close,” which do you hear in your mind: close or close?

What's the best episode of TV you've ever watched

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 19/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 18/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

drop the most powerful image in your gallery with zero explanation if you'd like

Is everyone ready for the inevitable AI bust to take out their kiwisaver/pension fund du jour?

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 18/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 17/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

Your honour, with all due respect, I wanna be adored. I wanna be ADORED! I also wanna be your dog...

Your honour, with all due respect, let's take a walk along the beach before the tide comes in, you sure missed one hell of a party last night, I'm just disappointed, the rest of the family won't even mention your name

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 17/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 16/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 15/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

Another fortnight, another bug for the almost three year old. It's like 2022 all over again. The wrinkle this year is I am the preferred sick pillow so he has variously fallen asleep on my head, burrowed into my pit, or propped up onto my belly, or variations therof, the last few nights.

Dude, don't back into my truck and make me chase you down the street before you come back smelling of booze w/ shaky hands, from the dairy. We all saw you sitting there for thirty seconds trying to work out whether you hit me before you drove off. You have a camera and sensors!

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 15/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 14/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

For the love of god, just give the hapu of Taitokerau their settlements. So much potential stifled by so much poverty, grievance and history.

Nga mihi, Whangarei

Weds night chase barefoot two year old around Town Basin while missus crafts paper lanterns at workshop Thursday night attend Playcentre Matariki marshmallow toast and chase two year old around finding glow in the dark rocks Tonight lantern parade with crafted lanterns and fire-dancers.

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 14/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 13/20 #booksky

Frikken boomers letting their dog shit all over the Springs Flat layby and leaving it there.

Cool little commission. 275kw community solar farm on papakainga land over the road from the marae. As the man say, hope for a generation.

Five pm in mid winter, and I found this barefoot and scruffy urchin chugging around downtown. What is the world coming to?

Battleship. So bad it's good. Will watch once a year until the lion lays down with the lamb or the sun burns itself out. Qui-Gon Jinn. John Carter of Mars! Rihanna!! Jesse Plemons!!! Band of Horses!!! STP!!!!

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 13/20 #booksky

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 12/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

Thirty years almost to the day since this little guy was mauled to death by a neighbour's Rotty. A couple of minutes after this photo he bit me in the nose, little arsehole. Bestest, filthiest farm Frise you ever did see.

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 12/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 11/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

Maybe this guy can hook Transpower up? IDK.

An enthusiastic customer put their completed version of my electricity pylon kit on a FB Fallout group last week and my laser hasn't stopped running with new orders since. Please share your buys and completed wins from us Indies. It's *so* important to us!

So Electrix was bought by McConnell Dowell which was bought by a succession of North American and South African interests which sold Electrix to a massive French conglomerate owned by Private Equity and sovereign dictator wealth funds. Rebrands to Omexom, undid too many nuts and tower fall down.

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 11/20 #booksky #HistBookChat

The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 10/20 #booksky #HistBookChat